My Garden.  By Denise Dright.

“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.”  ~ Psalm 139:14

To know who you are from the start: fearfully and wonderfully made! I love the definition: intentionally, intricately, and lovingly crafted by God as a unique masterpiece.

2010

The following is a prophetic dream that our Canadian son had about me. He has released many words over us.

Apostle Paul stated in I Corinthians 14, it is better to prophecy. Paul argues that prophecy is more valuable for building up the church. Many have received words from the Lord our God, and we also know to use wisdom to test the word by the Word. So, I’m sharing this word with you and what I received by His Spirit and His Word. It came with me spending time seeking the Lord on what our Canadian son saw about me and what does it mean for me. So, what you’ll read will be exactly what he saw and wrote down. This was January 1, 2010

He wrote:  Daughter, Queen, Priestess

To truly know and believe who you are in Christ and for His Kingdom, I will get back to these words at the end.

D!!  Her Garden

I saw beautiful flowers begin to grow all over you. Yellows and blues, greens, purples, and pinks, but no reds. The flowers’ roots went deep into you, deep into your spirit, their beauty was the result of the cultivated intimacy deep within you.

As you walked, you would pick these flowers out of yourself and plant them. Then after you had planted them, someone who needed a flower would pick and find satisfaction and contentment in that flower. Though you loved each flower and their beauty, you had little care in giving them up because you always knew where to get more.

Then as you were walking, I saw someone walk up to you, covered in red flowers. He began telling you that you needed red flowers because the Lord loved them more than any other color.  Though you were wary of it, you wanted the Lord to love your garden, so you took one and it grew into your shoulder.

As it grew into you, the roots reached your spirit and began to turn all the other flowers weird colors, then slowly they were all turning red. Then they were all red. Now you no longer knew which one was the original red that has corrupted them all. You suddenly became very confused and sad because you had changed.

As you sat on the ground weeping in your present condition, the Lord walked up behind you clothed in a “bright” array of white flowers.

“God takes care of His own…at just the right moment He steps in and proves himself as our Faithful Heavenly Father.”  Written by Charles R. Swindoll.

He sees you and He sat down right beside you and with one pluck of His fingers pulled out the corrupting red flower. ( Ps.81:1a I saw this scripture and it said I relieved his shoulder of the burden and placed it on His own shoulder. Matt.28:18  For All authority has been given to Me in  heaven and on earth; I’m His garden).

And as it grew into Him, the red slowly faded and soon it was just another white flower.  Slowly your flowers began turning yellow, and blues, greens, purples and pink but no reds. Then leaning over to your ear, He said.

There has never and will never be a garden quite so beautiful as yours!

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Over the years Holy Spirit has has given me these words.

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not be afraid.”  ~ Psalm 46:1-2

“I am God’s Workmanship…” ( Eph:2:10).

Because I am His masterpiece and His desire, I join Him in His work with the gifts He has given me; therefore, I am accepted … I am secure… I am significant…

I am firmly rooted in Christ : I Colossians 2:7 (TPT) says:

“Your spiritual roots go deeply into his life as you are continually infused with strength, encouraged in every way. For you are established in the faith you have absorbed and enriched by your devotion to him.”

I have been made complete in Christ:

“And our own completeness is now found in him. We are completely filled with God as Christ’s fullness overflows within us. He is the Head of every kingdom and authority in the universe.”  ~ I Colossians 2:10 TPT

I am secure and I cannot be separated from the love of God:

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?”  ~ Romans 8:35

In this I – we – must remember to always, wherever we are, to be watchful, keeping our eyes and ears open to all things around us, because the deceiver will be crafty with lies. For the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy.

Thoughts on the  Garden in Genesis

The bible said the serpent speaks and Eve listened. This was the first subtle shift because sin rarely starts with an action, it starts with attention. What you keep listening to eventually will shape what you believe. The bible says when the woman saw, that’s where it unfolds.

Being her own judge, she now saw that the tree was good for food. This is the lust of the flesh.  The lie of the enemy first introduces itself in a beautiful way, so she examined it and desired it and took it.

“Do not love the things in the world because everything that is in the world—the desire of the flesh and desire of the eye and the arrogance of material possessions—is not from the Father, but is from the world.”  ~ I John 2:15a-16 LEB

In all that He is to us, none of us want to fail because we love God. We don’t want to fail because we let something else come in or around us that would cause our eyes to be distracted, or have our ears engaging in a stranger’s  voice, for we know the voice of our Shepherd.

What is interesting is that the person who brought the red flowers into my garden was already in my garden. He didn’t come to improve my garden, but to destroy it.

But what this person didn’t realize is that my Lord was there in my garden, too.

He thought with a broken heart I would surely die, and God wouldn’t love me, but we know the story; the garden is where God dwells, for He is the giver of life. God wasn’t going to let this garden perish.

“The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” ~ Job 33:4

Luke 11:34-36 Jesus shares:

“Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is unhealthy, your body is filled with darkness. Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light.”

Isaiah 27:2-5  (The Message)

“… There is something to  sing about !  I, God, will tend it (His garden-me).  I keep it watered. I keep careful watch over it so that no one can damage it. … Even if it gives me thornbushes or thistles. I’ll just pull them out and burn them up. Let the vine (my garden) cling to me for safety, let it find a good and whole life with me, let it hold on for a good and whole life.”

Psalm 138:8

“The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me your love. O Lord endures forever-do not abandon the works of your hands.”

“It is God’s Knowledge for me. His careful husbanding of the ground of my being. His constant presence in the garden of my life that guarantees my joy.” ~ Written by Phillip Keller

So, back to the words our son began with …

Daughter —I am a daughter of the Most High God so precious in His sight

I am the rose of Sharon (as defined in the biblical dictionary)-

Queen — a queen who is centered on the people ( others first );  a mature person of wisdom having confidence in what God has done in her to speak with authority

Priestess — acting as an intercessor

2026

Years going over this dream, and many more prophetic dreams and spoken words have been given to me.  Growing with new eyes to see and a heart without a doubt receiving greater faith to believe in His profound words by His spirit and what I have discovered about myself, who I am, and most of all, His Love for me.

Years seeing the unfolding prophetic words that have been released over me has been so encouraging, not just for myself, but to share God’s faithfulness and unfailing love to others is just so amazing. What the Lord wanted me to know about Him and the love He has for me wasn’t just for me, but to share and spread the gospel in the way He created my garden.

 I believe God created gardens within His vast heavenly garden. Growing, maturing and yielding their gifts of the gospel in different seasons as needed. What I shared is just a little of what I’ve received and learned about myself though seasonal time with Him in my garden.

Me, his garden, prophetically has come to me in so many ways, seasonal growth for me to know without a doubt who I am.

So that no one could steal what God has ordained.

I will continue unraveling the word of God about me. I’m so thankful in my relationship with God. I have grown to know that this garden of His is His alone.  And to be able to see the growth in His garden season by season has been wonderful. I’m so blessed to believe when he said that there will never be a garden quite so beautiful as yours.